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See Tapish.

A sight consisting of a small telescope, as on a compass or rifle.

Seen or discoverable only by a telescope; as, telescopic stars.

In a telescopical manner; by or with the telescope.

h divinity and humanity. [R.] The gorgeous and imposing figures of his [Homer's] theanthropic sytem. Gladstone.

Pertaining to theophilanthropy or the theophilanthropists.

Of or pertaining to the thermoscope; made by means of the thermoscope; as, thermoscopic observations.

Manifesting thermotropism.

A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.

A toothpick. [Obs.] Shak.

f argument; a system or scheme of forms or commonplaces of argument or oratory; as, the Topics of Aristotle. These topics, or loci, were no other than general ideas applicable to a great many different subjects, which the orator was directed to consult. Blair. In this question by [reason] I do not mean a distinct topic…

Of or pertaining to a place; limited; logical application; as, a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege.

In a topical manner; with application to, or limitation of, a particular place or topic.

Transparent; pervious to the sight. [R.] "The wide, transpicuous air." Milton.

and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.

Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.

In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.

Typical. "Typic shades." Boyle.

rm, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative. The Levitical priesthood was only typical of the Christian. Atterbury.

Situated beyond, or outside of, the tropics; extratropical; also, having an excessively tropical temperature; warmer than the tropics.